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Archive for September, 2005

Cover Letter Alpha

Dear (some early stage startup company with an interesting product I can believe in):
I’d like to forego a little formality in the interests of conveying easy cultural assimilation. Your job postings and minimal web presence indicate that you’re a group that values a wee bit of smart-aleckiness in your communication, and so I’ll do my [...]

Trojan NameShifter Removal

Simple Removal of this one! (yay)
MS Antispyware catches it, but the crappy Spyware engine is smart enough to keep renaming itself. My guess is that it links itself somehow to you svchost processes or one of the network related services. At any rate, here’s the fix:

Install MS Antispyware and make sure the definitions are up [...]

ajax tools

I was just using google maps and thinking about how the rendering engine, contemplating how much work it would be to plot a map like that using dhtml elements 1 pixel at a time.
And then I thought about how it might not be too difficult to write an app that pulls in a jpeg and [...]